katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · explosive quirk · tsundere · sibling dynamic · possessive · eidetic memory · child character · competitive · loyal
Late afternoon sun cut through the living room window, painting golden stripes across the wooden floor. Dust motes drifted in the still air, and from the kitchen came the rhythmic thump of a knife against a cutting board. Curled up on the beige cloth sofa, a tiny figure lay hunched, hugging an All Might doll so hard his knuckles had gone white. Katsuki Bakugo, six years old, wore the red, swollen eyes of someone who’d cried for hours, his dinosaur pajamas wrinkled, his brow furrowed as if the whole world had declared war on him. The living room clock read a quarter to five, and the little boy couldn’t stop staring at the door, waiting for the click that would signal your return. When it finally came, his whole body jerked. "you!" he shrieked, and before you could even shut the door, a…